John Oliver Quotes
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I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.
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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.
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When you have a lot of women in our state that do wear the hijab, we should be able to see that everywhere.
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I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.
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The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
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The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
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I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.
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I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
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I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.
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You’ll find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.
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Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin.
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As we scale, we will be able to drive the business with more efficiency, which will allow us to pass on more benefits to the consumers.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.
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We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
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There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.
